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by alyandon 5y ago
There are group policy settings to regain control over Windows Defender automatic quarantine/deletion: https://www.windows-security.org/6d29bb05ca76bf06eae9760e736... I use that and another setting to disable automatic
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by alyandon 5y ago
IIRC, there is a group policy setting called "Turn off routine remediation" to stop defender from auto-removing stuff. There is also a setting to permanently disable automatic sample reporting. I enabled that on all my Windows ma
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by alyandon 5y ago
Yeah, you're an asshole and I no longer care about your article. You made it much further than I did. Even as a (nominally) rational human being, I really don't see how I'm supposed to be obligated to take the opini
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by alyandon 5y ago
Thanks - I wasn't even aware that was an option.
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by alyandon 5y ago
“The GED is a treatment of last resort ... ” Sure it is. And if it is referred to in plain language as a treatment it sure sounds like it falls under the purview of the FDA to regulate it.
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by alyandon 5y ago
I wouldn't mind paying for a "day pass" to online news sites for a nominal price as long as I continue to have access to that day's content just as if I had paid for the print version. That might be more manageable given
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by alyandon 5y ago
My pseudo-workaround to deal with this is to use a Microsoft account for the sole purposes of backing up my digital entitlements. After I've logged in once, I create a local admin account using the control panel and never use the onli
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by alyandon 5y ago
I just don't see either approach (opt-in vs opt-out) being workable in practice though. Taking it to a bit of a silly extreme - what happens when 100 different companies want to use public SSID data? 100 different opt-in codes? 1 cod
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by alyandon 5y ago
Those FCC registration records would then be public information. Would you feel comfortable with your name, address and MAC + SSID of your wireless AP(s) being registered in a public database and the onus on you to keep that registration in
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by alyandon 5y ago
Yep, I continued to use an old copy of WP for years because of reveal codes until I was forced to move to Microsoft Word.
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by alyandon 5y ago
Same here on Firefox 90.
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by alyandon 5y ago
Exactly that. If ads were like they were back in the early days I wouldn't feel forced to run an adblocker to protect myself from the malware they've become.
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by alyandon 5y ago
You can build Debian packages from source with custom options to get a resulting .deb to install. I will fully admit the process tends to be a bit easier when dealing with BSD ports though.
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by alyandon 6y ago
I, too, learned something new today even though I don't even pretend to be a Python developer!
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by alyandon 6y ago
Pretty much the route I went when I finally got fed up with brick and mortar store routers - Mikrotik router + Ubiquiti AP.
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by alyandon 6y ago
Something similar happened to me at a hotel where they charged my card something just shy of about $10000. If it hadn't been for the fact that I was using a credit card that would have wiped out my checking account and probably taken
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by alyandon 6y ago
- auto-update enabled by default. if I boot a vm it's going to be nearly unusable (can't install packages) because it's going to spend the first 30 minutes doing a full upgrade There is something seriously wrong with
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by alyandon 6y ago
Indeed - you do get what you pay for. I've personally had one 2nd gen rpi fail without warning and have also had several instances of SD card corruption. The SD card is probably crap like you say but it can be formatted and passed rea
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by alyandon 6y ago
I, too, wrote a program that would assemble random teams of ships so you could have ladder style type combat amongst friends! The driving factor is that some ships were virtually impossible to defeat in a skilled player's hand so we ha
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by alyandon 6y ago
Yeah, "rolling outages" is a joke. I went 19 hours without power in GP&L territory yesterday and portions of my house were down below 40F when I went to bed around 9 PM last night. They finally decided to restore power in my
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by alyandon 6y ago
/me shrugs It's just another init system to me. I don't really care enough about it to get upset and complain that I had to read some documentation and edit a text file to change its behavior.
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by alyandon 6y ago
You can fix the problematic service with: systemctl edit service-name [Service] TimeoutStopSec=XX You can also override the global default DefaultTimeoutStopSec in /etc/systemd/system.conf.
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by alyandon 6y ago
The MS Edge dev channel has a basic form of tab suspending built into it now. Based on my non-rigorous testing it seems to actually save more memory than TGS ever did so I just removed the extension entirely. It is really a shame that basi
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by alyandon 6y ago
And if all that wasn't bad enough - snapd also purges package change history after something like 72 hours so you can't even tell what updates were applied and when to your system.
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by alyandon 6y ago
You'd think by now we'd have something like a vicron command similar to visudo that would safely allow you to edit and then verify the contents of the crontab.
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by alyandon 6y ago
I once fat-fingered crontab -r instead of crontab -e on a production accounting system running Solaris which immediately wiped out something on the order of about 200 cron entries. Had to restore the contents from off-site backup tapes. Th
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by alyandon 6y ago
That's amazingly customer hostile. In this area with Spectrum you can self-service swap out your cable modem as often as you want by logging into a support portal and entering the MAC address of the new modem and waiting a minute for
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by alyandon 6y ago
Yes, happened to me on three different machines with the 20H2 update.
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by alyandon 6y ago
Yep - pretty critical missing bit of functionality unfortunately.
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by alyandon 6y ago
Yep, I'm happy my ISP actually does proper prefix delegation and hands me a /56. I still often wonder if a /96 for a host and /64 for a network would have been a more reasonable allocation strategy though.

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